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America's Next Top Model winner Lisa D'Amato says she thinks is using her forthcoming documentary to try and that would have her .
The Los Angeles-born D'Amato appeared opposite Banks on America's Next Top Model in the show's fifth cycle in 2005 before winning America's Next Top Model: All Stars six years later, in 2011.
'In order for her to save face to make more money in the future, she's going to have to ,' D'Amato told Page Six of Banks' new special Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.
She estimated Banks will take 'about 5 percent accountability' for her past actions.
A logline for the show, which begins airing on the streamer on Monday, says the 'eye-opening documentary series' will 'look back at the reality show's complicated legacy.
It will feature interviews with Banks, as well as a number of the show's models, judges and insiders.
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D'Amato admit she's concerned that Banks' past admitted wrongdoings linked to the TV series will be 'manipulated' and 'softened' in an effort to reset the narrative.
America's Next Top Model winner Lisa D'Amato says she thinks Tyra Banks is using her forthcoming Netflix documentary to try and minimize past bad behavior that would have her canceled by contemporary standards
D'Amato on Instagram said that she's heard Banks 'has a heavy hand in the creative' aspect of the forthcoming doc, and will likely spin things to benefit her image
D'Amato told the outlet she'll be paying close attention to what former contestants on the series say.
Banks in the doc said that she was trying to give TV viewers what they wanted during a time when edginess was prevalent in mainstream culture
D'Amato said of Banks, 'I don't trust anything she touches'
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'Ultimately, my own intuition tells me from my own experience - which is very deep, and it's been many years - that this is a money grab for Tyra' so she's 'not 100 percent canceled.'
